on r t thousands of protesters frustrated with the rate of reform of the field of cairo's tahrir square and other cities across the country the voice of their own gear against egypt's interim government we've got the latest for you tonight also. from flu to the flight to lower profile a syrian activists want their ships for plagues to reach garza now after a convoy of humanitarian basis was halted in greek. dozens of activists interrogated international calls only one manages to set me to speak to him in just a few moments. to launch zero and lift plus the

final blastoff the last seven launch of atlantis marks the end of the u.s. space shuttle program and the end of an era. that's in business russia wants to increase its annual crude oil production to five hundred or nine million tons per the countries whose primary capacity needs urgent modernization and turning performance is bullets and i think that's from the. hello this is r t my name's kevin now and it's ten pm now you're a moscow and our top story for you thousands of people have been protesting in egypt's tahrir square all day and into the night now to voice their anger at the interim government over the country sluggish rate of reform demonstrators want to keep up the pressure for change of the interims on the country's interim military rulers under-sea former regime officials brought to trial with the latest artes and

this and now from cairo. monk money or they're calling it the phase out of the room because they say their freedom was suddenly and then they got rid of mubarak you know that my thinking of this is that now egypt will be the way among the two or january some of. the basic middle mubarak some you need to let it slide there was among them for my running the country the i. was still not here they come back to me to the revolution was born they want to take me out to the universities me want to take back we're going to the world places and make things easier it's really good we don't know how many people one they're going to stay seated going to say bring them to take to the real changes coming here and easier time getting this new security. here it's people. don't see god doing very much.

these are going to keep on fighting egypt that think they can work. very hard at it that is why things like think they can come together on the fact that. you know not the beastly. change is going to keep coming back. pretty. hard. but if you want to follow all the very latest from egypt you can follow in this and now it's latest twitter updates to all the details on the breaking developments there from tahrir square she's got eyewitness accounts and fresh updates on those protests today and tonight we're going to twitter you can find us an. underscore called. hundreds of protesters tonight of this being blocked by is where their attempts to reach gaza by air dozens were detained for questioning in tel aviv on the arrival of

a majority were prevented from even reaching some of the big european airports just last week a humanitarian fratello with hundreds of. pain is bound for garza was stopped from leaving a greek court triggering this fresh attempt to ease a blockade party's policy is but go to an airport where she spoke the only activists believed to cross the israel that. dozens of activists are being interrogated as i speak to you here epping to an international airport only a few have actually managed trickle through and it's not quite clear how the israeli police and security have been out in to go through because there are still hundreds of police and security officers both inside and outside been coming in international now have to be back to latif and palestine sun a territory campaign and she is one of the few people who's actually managed to come through you on the stone with the activists who are being interrogated here at the airport what are they telling you. this telling me that they were taken from passport control as a spatial on the phone they said the heavies were coming in and they were about to be interrogated i actually think i literally slipped through the net just mean as

far as i can tell there is only one of us there are forty or fifty people waiting hoping not to be deported likely to be to bullshit and there's me so it is up to me to be their voice and to put forward the point if you especially of people in the u.k. but there are people from belgium and from france and scotland from all over the u.k. waiting to come through i don't know why netanyahu wants to whip people's passions up the whole time as if we were threat i mean look at me look at me i'm a british woman i came deeply about peace and justice i care deeply about a just peace that both sides we older and some and yet netanyahu sees us as a threat he says us as a stretch to the legitimization of israel how can we be a threat and yet he whips up the israelis he could scare the poor in all over the

airport he gets the british police the french police to stop activists coming out we never plan to. demonstrate we always planned to be here and be here for this day and in chile the the cultural activities of the palestinians are you place a bank and to the israelis as well all you have it and it's true it's past we can tell it's the only activists to have actually made it through to the rivals hall here and as i'm speaking to you they must be dozens of security officers i'm looking at they're surrounding the area and yet she has managed to come through and talk to c.n.n. r.t. skitt some expert analysis of the protests in egypt from professor mark colvin the small swede university thanks for being with us professor tonight so you're a gamer witnessing the protesters back on tahrir square was it just five months now since the revolution do they have real cause to be so disappointed in your view in the way things have turned that. well i think they may be over optimistic about how

things will turn out but clearly there are very big difficulties in egypt the economy has spiral downwards this inflation things have been made worse by for instance the normal vegetable exports because of the fear of. your pretty strong egyptian products but more generally the expectations that the fall of mubarak will be followed by a change of regime hasn't really come about effect with barak and his family and closest cruize have been imprisoned or accused will go on trial next month of all sorts of crimes against the people and against the interests of country but of course field marshal tantawi of the other members of the military ruling council with his appointees to great extent across egypt people don't see that the local boss the local head of the biggest racial changed so there's a sense that the old regime was decapitated but minus mubarak it's still in power so how big is the gap between what people want and what they're actually going to end up with. the great problem is that in many ways the revolution comes about

because people are very discontented have reasons for propriety economic discontents but in the process the revolution causes so much disruption that we see tourists stay away from egypt that kills a lot of business we see people worried about investing there because they wonder who's going to be in power in a few months time so ironically one of the big reasons for the revolution people's economic discontent social discontent irritation about unemployment and so on actually the process of getting rid of a barak has made in the short term the economy worse i do think really there's an easy answer to egypt's economic problems because global oil prices global food prices and so on are rising and egypt is essentially an importer professor your view about the old regime should thought the president hosni mubarak and his former regime officials be prosecuted as the people are demanding. well it looks good the question is which everybody may be subject to judicial review all their actions

maybe some picture being put on trial whether they will have a further trial in the current atmosphere of course not speak seriously doubt it and there is obviously a sense that the former comrades in arms of the bar in charge of the government have in a sense tried to throw away mubarak and his family in order to throw a bone to the popular discontent whether the ordinary population of egypt will be satisfied simply with seeing the former president and his sons perhaps put on trial and punished possibly punished very severely even with the death penalty is not so clear revolutions have a habit of spiraling out of control once you begin a purge of the society words as its top after all if mubarak is allowed to defend himself he may point the finger at people who are now in power still in office who he knows quite a lot about from his time when he was in charge and let's talk about these events that were seen tonight we're looking at over your shoulder there the muslim

brotherhood which many consider a radical islamist movement also we're playing a part in a mass demonstrations as significant is their involvement. well this i think it is perhaps the most important political group because we hear about people like professor elvira die about our muso and so on as people who might want to be president of egypt but they don't have a party political base a mass movement the muslim brotherhood may be the legal underground for decades but it's a powerful organization it has quite a lot of local support it's also been playing a very clever game i think recently of reaching out to the american embassy to american potential investors say we are moderate muslims we are in favor of the market economy we're not like we are told those in iran and so they're trying to remove one potential foreign obstacle to coming to power. whether they will necessarily be able to muster the votes if there is anything like a properly conducted free and fair election must be open to question on the other

hand they all the group that his best organized what is least tainted by association with the old regime what is likely to come out of these elections in september. well i think the likelihood is probably that we will see a lot of. small groups competing not really been able to operate across the whole country affectively because they don't have the resources the money with local activists and probably the most of brotherhood and possibly. something that grows out of the old ruling party will be the two main contenders in practice and the muslim brotherhood may therefore have a good chance of winning even if it's total share of the vote compared to the population of egypt isn't hugely high if it's the best organized minority twenty five thirty percent of real supporters it could yet do very well first of all carmen joining us tonight thanks very much. thank you. hope you stay with us still to come the stop the press the latest twists in britain's phone hacking scandal that's a really serious biggest selling paper shut down now its former relatives been

arrested i was told just about that bit later. next though georgia claims a group of high profile photographers detained in the capital tbilisi have been spying for a foreign state the arrest comes nine other people were jailed for forty years for espionage for moscow his country in a zone over explains what's behind georgia's spy saga. i have been. i still spy with my little lie george is continuing is for encounter espionage campaign and this time around the people in the spotlight are those who usually stay behind the scenes for photo journalists have been detained including the president's personal photographer and employees of the associated press and the european press agency a.p. photographer was later released without charge but the other three remaining in custody . are the only support i have met with my client he's got injuries to his face at

the moment he still hasn't been charged with anything and we waiting on the prosecution to file the case and to question and formally charge my client. so for a georgian authorities haven't specified exactly who they believe these journalists were spying for their previous spying allegations however have mostly been aimed at russia for soccer rights no continuation of war and no russian. see the main basis for. the most opposed and. why he should care. a power because the suction was second player which we were and. clearly he was going through all his tour and a lot of theoretical explanation for european partners why georgia. why. power you always a bunch of part. of georgia and.

he's partly be. russian agents or since. the recent hysteria began with yet another alleged spy story last year thirteen people were detained and accused of being spies on russia's payroll earlier this week nine of them were found guilty and sentenced to. between eleven and fourteen years behind bars but what lies behind this frenzied. response the georgians are so quick to. anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and it has been noticed not just by russia but the key international organizations like the un. even so it seems international disbelief and numerous arrests and convictions i know enough to put the paranoia of georgian officials to rest assured is interior minister claims that there are more

alleged spies out there he knows exactly who they are where they are and what they're doing who all of this will be seen hills these efforts many seem to be of the opinion that is just plain wishful thinking. katharine's our i.t. loss. to the u.k. big story there were a former editor of the news of the world's been arrested in connection with the phone hacking scandal of the country's biggest selling newspaper its former royal correspondent also been arrested on suspicion of driving police now if your is prompted the prime minister to announce two inquiries into the ethics and practices of the british press the one hundred sixty eight year old papers accused of hacking into the phones in emails of first of the targets including murder and terror victims dead soldiers as well as politicians it's owner rupert murdoch's news international with abs the paper is set to close after sunday's edition a spring of the equation here john go on to a radio show on the sun website these in burning and forests and i jump over

a good evening thanks spring and i'll make prime minister great hammer and promise personally this independent inquiry into practice is a newspaper we're releasing two arrests in connection with the hacking is this though just the tip of the iceberg. i think it probably is and of course many of us were calling for a full public inquiry led by a judge and cameron has been dragged into this position he's now willing to let it happen so extremely embarrassing for him because the former editor of the news of the world andy coulson of course became his press secretary he had to resign really first hacking allegations came out and now of course we found out the news the world actually hacking into dead soldiers families phones and also a little girl who went missing called milly dowler who was eventually found murdered they hacked into her phone messages and deleted certain messages to keep on listening in getting new messages this is absolutely horrified to public and now

i'll bristly when i get a criminal investigation and a full public inquiry we'll talk about the british prime minister in a minute if we will but let's talk about rebecca brooks the news the world chief executive of news international she's being called to resign on by a lot of people but she was but yes they wasn't he wasn't she by rupert murdoch now let's just one o'clock she was the editor of the news of the world when some of that alleged hacking took place why is she still in her job. prion maine let me tell you i believe she should go rebecca is a nice woman she actually gave me a job as a columnist on the sun but say she was the editor of the news the world before that and as you say that's where these hacking incidents emanate from her excuse is that she was on holiday when they hacked into this missing girl's telephone surely if you're the editor of the biggest selling newspaper usual was have the things on the polls and the pork and fundamentally has to stop we give rupert murdoch he's back you know the moment i personally believe the reason he backing her he's because

that draws the flack away from his son now a certain james murdoch is meant to be taking over the whole of news corp when rupert moves on on the passes away or indeed retries if he ever does retire i believe that rebecca has been left there as a lightning come go also of course what's happened is now she hasn't resigned but they've closed down the news the world so up to five hundred people have lost their jobs i'm mostly people who are not of that is the world when these allegations of hacking happened however she was in my humble opinion she should go and she should go now and also james murdoch he has to also look at his conscience and perhaps he should step down as well because what's going to happen now is the free press in the united kingdom which is something we really pride ourselves on there's a real danger now we're going to get overregulation by the government as a direct result of this of borat behavior by some journalists on the news of the

world who are also there he wasn't only journalists involved also allegations of corruption and bribery at the metropolitan yes force are you surprised by that. i am surprised by that is a remarkable story they recommend being brown paper bags full of up to twenty thousand pound at a time being given over at fast food restaurants to detectives who have been giving information on certain again horrific crimes now of course if there are policemen or police were in doing this they should be fully investigated for the courts and if found guilty sent to prison and go to care for the not to tar all police officers with this corruption allegation just like we can't all journalists on the tabloid newspapers as if they're hacking into their people's telephones of course but there is a real problem here and also is a major problem because i think that successive governments in britain the labor government are in control before and now david cameron the conservatives have been to town flows where rupert murdoch this is what i want to know all of us here prior

to this exact want to bring up next john of the prime minister's promises that no stone will go on turning the investigation into a british press but what about his handling of the affair and the wisdom of employing him the media guru we've been arrested and this friendship with brooks we just talked about. and there where he's part of what's called the chipping camden set which is a rule part of britain he lives down there at the weekend rebecca brooks lives down there sir and columnist lived down there and the whole set you can to make socially that set was a different set when labor in power would truly blair but all of it is too cosy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely and indeed the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they've become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe that last may not all unary

people in britain their views have not really be represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena that's bad for democracy so david cameron should start investigating himself that's far as i'm concerned how would your employer a man who's already had to resign over the phone hacking allegations why would you take into the heart of government where he could have access to top secret dossier as an information it's a sorry sorry very let me tell you not just for the british press but for british democracy and as you say john a lot of questions still unanswered tonight as the reality goes on your going for the radio host on the side website talking to us from birmingham thank you thank you. the masses final shuttle flights blasted off for the two million spectators witnessing the historic launch it is the one hundred fifth one hundred thirty fifth mission on the thirty year history of america's space shuttle program experts had

warned of a high chance that alone could be delayed by bad weather but in the end the astronauts did leave earth was a way of only about a minute as if he's going to change and come reports next it was also of course a poignant moment devoted to a lot of the same program. empty shells that's what was once florida's thriving space coast. up to ten thousand people will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock which is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know your beach was built on the space program you know it's a lot of you are going to be sorry me out feeling on welfare left and right the chance anthony chris a fully spent twenty three years with the shuttle launch team as an engineer with a client this blasting our for its final mission it means the end of his career

with nasa and the beginning of uncertainty a year ago he started looking for a new job to no avail i have applied for jobs and so far haven't gotten any concrete responses there's not that many jobs out there for sure the u.s. scrapped its shuttle program and now wants the private sector to come up with ways to get astronauts to space several companies are working on new vehicles but it's not clear when they'll be able to deliver them one thing is certain though they'll be able to hire only a fraction of the skilled space industry workers will be out of work soon this is the first shuttle ever it never made it to space but it was going to put us before the columbia shuttle first launch into space in nineteen eighty one a total. five shuttles have been used for space missions since the two of them were lost thing tragic accidents in nine hundred eighty six and in two thousand and three those losses and the skyrocketing price per each launch gradually less to the

cancellation of the program but critics say it's hard to estimate the losses that the end of the shuttle program will bring about both for the space industry and the people involved i think it's a really bad thing for the united states to lose this. difficult to rebuild it for years the shuttle has been the only vehicle that could ferry crew and a massive load of cargo to space officials say one of the reasons the program was scrapped is that it's safer and cheaper to send cargo and people separately something that russia for example has been doing for many years but whatever the reasons for scrapping the thirty year old program for those who devoted their lives to it is the end of their dream job it's kind of sad because i've already seen a lot of a few of my friends go in the building more people there are probably never see again it also means the end of the once vibrant scientific lunatic that's grown up around the shuttle. our team. and certain understand recovery efforts are underway

after a series of explosions at a factory in the city of up and down toward nearby buildings that reportedly. all the officials say the blasts were forwards factory according to local media reports that when up to two hundred casualties it's not clear if any killed witnesses so that i mean issued from the burning they're probably scattered on the streets and some of its regional towns large sections of the city lost power water supplies since security. police patrolled the streets and. put in five minutes past ten moscow time sports news i'm going to run some petersburg ahead for the next thirty minutes let's check the business headlines. it's twenty five past ten pm here in moscow welcome to business russia has increased its annual crude oil production forecast to five hundred nine million tons however the quality of russian oil products is still very low because he needs

to modernize its refinery capacity and prime minister putin is going to make sure it will happen because of. prime minister was obviously unsatisfied that russia of the world's biggest oil producer has such a weak refighting industry he says it's still as it was he fifty years ago demand for high quality fuel in russia grow that's double digit rates annually however refining hasn't caught up either in volumes or in quality experts say legislation russian made it more profitable for oil producers to explore its crude oil low quality oil products but now putin says the measures to reverse the trend will be taken and other people say and when you do we need to monitor the implementation of the modernization plans by the oil companies and if they don't meet their obligations this street will have the right to ply sanctions including the seizure of reason real change critics. just to remind you in may a russia banned the export

of high quality fuel the country was facing gasoline shortage domestically as producers chose to export more cashing in on high oil prices now with the russian economy picking up and growing even faster than expected demand for high quality fuel is expected to grow as more than ten per cent annually and the prime minister made it absolutely clear producers will have to invest billions of dollars to more than eyes their refining capacity and. let's have a look at the markets now bhutto dropped during a second weekly game the trees fell as much as two point three percent brant crude fell ninety nine cents and likes we've lost two dollars forty six u.s. stocks are trading lower at midday that's half of the government side business is adding fewer jobs in june in over a year of course created only eighteen thousand jobs last month a fraction of what economists expected for dow's hopes for a quick we wound up at the current slump this spring. here in russia stocks have

raised games and have their biggest loss and more than a month has or. drop the odds as i'm isaac spoke last point nine percent energy majors the biggest losers on both of horses now let's have a look at some individuals hamel seldom isaacs we see look local and gas prong down local dollhouse percent gaskell down one point nine percent banking stocks also finished lowers their right over two percent. and rustan's biggest retail group x five has boosted its revenue by fifty one percent in the press half of the year the company says the seven point eight billion dollars come from strong the sales and consolidation from the recently acquired cupcake stock. that's the business update for this but it's all forget you can always log onto our web site that's hockey dot com slash business and more business stories that i just watch. the.

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